SMFS list members are published in the Killer
Nashville Magazine: January 2024 issue.
You can read the entire issue for free here. The SMFS
list members that reported their essays are:
Rodger Johns’ essay, Timing is Your Time’s Best Friend: Calendar Management for the Soon-To-Be-Published Author. Cowritten with
Kim Conrey.
Paula Messina’s essay, You Want Me to Spend Time withYou?
Judy Penz Sheluk’s essay, When “The End” is Just theBeginning.
SMFS list member Marcelle Dubé’s short story, Tethered,
is published in Black Cat Weekly #126. Published by Wildside Press, the issue
is available here in digital format.
Website Description:
This time, we have an original
mysteries by George Wilhite (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and
Peter DiChellis (a locked-room mystery), as well as an original science fiction
story by Larry Tritten and me. (It is a posthumous collaboration—Larry passed
away in 2011. I acquired his copyrights some years ago and have been working on
reprinting his stories, as longtime readers of BCW will realize. One particular
story, with a terrible name, just didn’t work. So I rewrote it, retitled it,
and am pleased to show it off here. I hope you all enjoy it.) And Acquiring
Editor Barb Goffman found a great tale by Marcelle Dubé.
We also have classic
novels from British mystery author Edgar Wallace and Irish fantasist James
Stephens, plus classic science fiction from Randall Garrett, J.F. Bone, and
Mark Reinsberg. Good stuff.
Here’s the complete
lineup—
Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
SMFS members are published in the recently released, Pulphouse
Fiction Magazine: Issue 25. Published by WMG Publishing, the read is
available from the publisher,
Amazon,
and other vendors. The SMFS list members that reported being in the issue are:
Karen Fonville with “The Remarkable Way She Died.”
David H. Hendrickson with "City of Sin
Stranglers."
Robert Jeschonek with "An Infinite Number of
Idiots."
Annie Reed with "Little City Blues."
Website Description:
The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction
A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of
Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best
writers working in modern short fiction.
No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great
stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse.
“This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a
lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading.” —Tangent Online on Pulphouse
Fiction Magazine, Issue #1
Includes:
“An Infinite Number of Idiots” by Robert Jeschonek
“What Remains of America” by Scott Edelman
“The Sleeping Agent” by Charlotte Munich
“Objects of Desire” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“City of Sin Strangler” by David H. Hendrickson
“A Willing Lad” by O’Neil De Noux
“The Remarkable Way She Died” by Karen Fonville
“The Spirit House” by Lisa S. Silverthorne
“Little City Blues” by Annie Reed
“Unity Con” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Minions at Work” by J. Steven York
SMFS list member Paul A. Barra’s short story, A Scent
of Murder, is now featured at the Mysteries to Die For: Season 7: Games
People Play podcast. Produced by TG Wolff, the podcast can be heard here.
SMFS list member Maurice Givens’ short story, Checkmate,
is published at The Yard: Crime Blog. You can read it online for free here.
SMFS list member Abe Margel’s short story, The Seventh
Wife, was published yesterday at BarBar. You can read the story online for free
here.
SMFS list members have been published in the recently
released Mystery Tribune: Issue #21.
It is available on their website.
The SMFS list members that reported their presence in the issue are:
Zakariah Johnson interviews Heather Levy about her new
book, Hurt For Me.
Jeff Markowitz with “Her Hips Were the Face of El
Vizir.”
Alan Orloff with "The Boy with Binoculars."
Art Taylor with "We Keep The Wall Between Us As
We Go."
Website Description:
Issue Nº21 features:
This issue also features a preview of
the new graphic novel “Where The Body Was” by award-winning duo Ed Brubaker and
Sean Phillips.
NY Times Bestselling author Reed
Farrel Coleman has called Mystery Tribune “a cut above” and mystery grand
masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised it for its “solid
fiction” and “the most elegant design”.
An elegantly crafted quarterly issue,
printed on uncoated paper and with a beautiful layout designed for optimal
reading experience, our Issue Nº21 issue will make a perfect companion or gift
for avid mystery readers and fans of literary crime fiction.
Your print issue will typically arrive within 2-3 weeks after order.
J. P. Seewald’s short story, The Unexpected, is
published in the recently released anthology, Automobilia: SpeKulative
Stories Anthology Series. Published by Fahrenheit Books
last week, the book is available at Amazon.
Amazon Description:
AUTOMOBILIA
41 stories • 9 poems
Since
the first automobiles rolled down a street, the range of human emotions
attached to these machines has run from love to hate, humor to horror, joy to
sadness. This book is a sampling of how fiction writers have viewed the
automobile, from yesteryear to tomorrow.
Famous
writers, experienced story tellers, and new literary voices are mixed together
between these covers.
Automobilia is
the first in a trilogy of stories and poems featuring that one machine that has
changed the face of the earth, for the good and for the bad…the automobile.
SMFS list member Robert Lopresti’s short story, Late Bus, is
published in Black Cat Weekly #125. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is
available here in digital
format.
Website Description:
This
time, we have a rare mystery from Hulbert Footner (whose Madame Storey
mysteries I greatly enjoy). His novel Queen of Clubs in this
issue is a jazz-age mystery that—well, I don’t want to spoil the surprises.
Read it and see for yourself!
Also
on the mystery front, we have original tales by Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Robert
Lopresti (thanks to our Acquiring Editors, Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), a
classic crime story by David Goodis, and, of course, a solve-it-yourself
puzzler from Hal Charles.
On
the science fiction & fantasy side, we have a recent tale by Edward M.
Lerner, classic shorts from William C. Gault, Randall Garrett, and T.D. Hamm,
and a rare short novel from Ward Moore—most famous for his classics Greener
Than You Think and Bring the Jubilee. Moore’s Transient originally
appeared in Amazing Stories magazine in 1960 and languished
undiscovered for decades before a small press reprinted it in an anthology a
decade ago. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. (Keep an eye out for unicorns.)
As
for this issue: here’s the complete lineup—
Mysteries
/ Suspense / Adventure:
Science
Fiction & Fantasy:
The nominees for 2024 Lefty Awards have been announced
by Left Coast Crime. As posted on the website for the event
this year, winners will be announced on April 13th. The website also
has the full list of nominees. The SMFS list members that reported their
nominations are:
Lefty Nominees for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
Wendall Thomas for Cheap Trills (Beyond
the Page).
Lefty Nominees for Best Debut Mystery Novel
Josh Pachter for Dutch
Threat (Genius Book Publishing).
Lefty Nominees for Best Mystery Novel
James L’Etoile for Face of Greed
(Oceanview Publishing).
The nominees for 2024 Edgar Awards, so named to honor
Edgar Allen Poe, have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America. Winners
will be announced on May 1st, as noted on the MWA website.
The website also has the full list of nominees. The SMFS list members that
reported their nominations are:
SMFS list member Scott Von Doviak is nominated in the Best
Paperback Original category for his book, Lowdown Road. The book
was published by Hard Case Crime.
SMFS list member Gabriela Stiteler is nominated for the
Robert L. Fish Award for her short story, Two Hours West of Nothing. The story
was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: September/October 2023
issue.
SMFS list members won and placed third in the annual Writers’
Police Academy Golden Donut Short Story Contest. Using the photo prompt, contestants
entered stories that were exactly two hundred words. The stories are free to
read online at the WPA website.
The members that reported their success are:
Winner:
Sally Milliken with "Adam-13."
Third Place:
Pat Remick with “Cemetery Justice.”
S. B. Watson’s flash fiction tale, Roger, appears at ScribesMICRO:
Issue 37. Published online by Fairfield Scribes, it can be read for free here.
David H. Hendrickson’s book, Romantic Concerto for Strings
and Brass, has been published by Pentucket Publishing. The read
is available at Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Description:
Already one of the world’s
great concert violinists, Julia Chu strives for ever greater perfection.
Nothing else matters. Especially not romance. She learned the hard way years
ago that romance threatens to derail her career. Now, she loves only her Stradivarius.
Slavko Novak earns accolades every year as the top tuba player in the world of
polka, but accolades don’t pay the bills. His band perpetually teeters on the
brink of bankruptcy despite touring almost all year round, leaving him no time
for relationships.
One night of anonymous, no-strings-attached passion throws their carefully
guarded worlds into chaos. In bed, they make beautiful music together.
But a single night makes them realize they yearn for more than one perfect
song. They want the entire symphony.
For these two musicians, creating harmony out of dissonance proves more
complicated than expected.
Master of steamy romance David H. Hendrickson delights his readers once again
with Romantic Concerto for Strings and Brass
Brandon Barrows - "What Goes Around."
John M. Floyd with “Wanted.”
Nikki Knight with "Owl Be Damned."
Michele Bazan Reed with “Sweet Revenge.”
Kevin R. Tipple with "Visions of Reality."
Andrew Welsh-Huggins, with “A Smith & Wesson With
A Side of Chorizo.”
Martin Zeigler with "Wave To Me."
Amazon Description:
Crimeucopia - Say It Again
Ever Get A Feeling Of Déjà
Vu?
There are many things
which can be said of the Modern World, and one of those is the amount of
'noise' when it comes to finding something - anything - that makes you sit up
and say I like that. And sometimes, by the time that happens, the 'item' has
passed by and gone, washed out of sight by the riptide of The Next New Thing to
surf across your attention.
Which is why, whenever we
open the doors to new projects and submissions, we also see pieces passed to us
with the offer of reprinting them.
Some may only have a paper
history, some may only have been up on a webzine site - placed for a short
period of time before being archived into the depths of an ISP's hosting server.
And there are also those
pieces which, quite rightly, authors may have a fondness for - the joyful
offspring of their creative minds, regardless of how twisted they might be (the
offspring that is, rather than the minds of their creators), and which they
feel are deserving of a second read.
Hopefully by presenting
these pieces here, you'll start looking at various magazine and webzine
archives, in search of something that may have passed you by, or that you
missed the first time around.
And, as always with all of
these anthologies, we hope you'll find something that you immediately like, as
well as something that takes you out of your regular comfort zone - and puts
you into a completely new one because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press
motto:
You never know what you
like until you read it.
SMFS list member Gregory Meece’s short story, Ashes to
Ashes, was published today at Bristol Noir. You can read it online for free here.
SMFS list member Mary Jo Robertiello’s short story, Patty’s
At It Again, is published online at the Mystery Tribune. The story can be read
for free at the website.
SMFS list members are published in Black Cat Weekly #124. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format. The members and their stories are:
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with “Rise.”
Diana Deverell with "Payback is a Bitch."
Robert Lopresti with “When the Aliens Left.”
Publisher Description:
This issue, we are happy to reprint Earl Derr Biggers’
third entry in the classic Charlie Chan detective series, Behind That Curtain.
But the highlights don’t stop there! We have an original mystery by Travis
Richardson (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken), a great modern mystery
by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier (thanks to acquiring editor Barb Goffman), an
original science fiction story from Robert Lopresti (best known as a mystery
writer), and Diana Deverell’s “Payback is a Bitch,” which was named a Distinguished
Mystery Story of 2018 by Otto Penzler. And, of course, we have our usual
assortment of classic science fiction, as well as a solve-it-yourself puzzler
from Hal Charles. Good stuff!
Here’s the complete lineup:
Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:
“Last Stop, Cozyville!” by Travis Richardson [Michael
Bracken Presents short story]
“The Poker Chips Clue” by Hal Charles
[Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]
“Rise” by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier [Barb Goffman
Presents short story]
“Payback Is a Bitch” by Diana Deverell [short story]
Behind That Curtain, by Earl Derr Biggers [novel,
Charlie Chan series]
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
“When the Aliens Left,” by Robert Lopresti [short
story]
“Nightmare Tower,” by Sam Merwin [short story]
“Travelogue,” by Roger Dee [short story]
“Requiem,” by Edmond Hamilton [short story]
Mating Center, by Frank Belknap Long [novel]
SMFS list member Brigitte McCray’s short story, Like
Two Ornaments On Far Sides of A Tree, is published online at the Mystery
Tribune. The story can be read for free at the website.
SMFS list member Andrew Riconda’s short story, A Tough
Break for Mary, is published online at the Mystery Tribune. The story can be
read for free at the website.
SMFS list member Judy Penz Sheluk’s short story, Plan
D, is featured at SAM Magazine. The podcast can be heard here.
Podcast Description:
Today, I have the pleasure of
reading the short mystery story Plan D, written by Judy
Penz Sheluk. Plan D first
appeared in The Whole She-Bang 2 (Sisters
in Crime Toronto) in 2014 and was reprinted in The Best Laid Plans: 21 Stories of
Mystery & Suspense in June 2020 (Superior Shores
Press).
A former journalist and
magazine editor, Judy Penz Sheluk is the bestselling author of Finding
Your Path to Publication and Self-publishing: The Ins & Outs
of Going Indie, as well as two mystery series: the Glass Dolphin
Mysteries and Marketville Mysteries, both of which have been published in
multiple languages. Her short crime fiction appears in several collections,
including the Superior Shores Anthologies, which she also edited.
With a passion for
understanding the ins and outs of all aspects of publishing, Judy is also the
founder and owner of Superior Shores Press, which she established in February
2018.
Judy is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Crime Writers of Canada, where she served on the Board of Directors for five years, the final two as Chair. She lives in Northern Ontario. Find her at www.judypenzsheluk.com.
Multiple SMFS list members appear in the new anthology,
Ill Winds and Wild Weather. Recently
published by Smoking Pen Press, the anthology
is available at Amazon.
The SMFS members in the book are:
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with “A Lesson on Fronts.”
Alan Orloff with "Stormy, With a Chance of
Murder."
S. B. Watson with "Overpass."
Amazon Description:
These eighteen short stories address all the different elements
of weather and weather forecasting, from a variety of different angles. Some of
them are dark, some of them are funny, some of them are sweet, many of them are
a bit weird. We begin with A Lesson on Fronts, a lesson on weather, entwined
with some life lessons. We work our way through some weather-assisted murders,
a sweet story of loss, some funny takes on 'routine' weather forecasting, and a
few tales of truly wild weather. And we conclude with a wonderful story
entitled The Nefarious Gray Comma, that is not to be missed.
Whether you take the "Read on the Run" title to heart and read these stories while waiting for the doctor's appointment, or eating lunch, or as a quick bed-time story before going to sleep, or you sit down and consume the entire anthology in one sitting, these eighteen short stories are worth your time, and worth reading.
SMFS list member Martin Hill Ortiz’s, The Case of the
Fallen Cragsman, appears in the recently released book, Steel True, Blade
Straight 2023 Annual: The Belanger Books Journal of SHERLOCK HOLMES and SIR
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE-Inspired Stories, Poems and Scholarship. Published
by Belanger Books, the read is
available at Amazon.
Amazon Description:
This all new jumbo sized journal is divided into two
sections. The first half includes all new stories, poems, and scholarship
focused on the writings and life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The second half of
the journal features all new Sherlock Holmes centered stories, poems, and
essays. The Sherlock Holmes stories are traditional and written in the
Watsonian voice.
Steel
True, Blade Straight has been endorsed by the Arthur Conan Doyle Society.
Steel True, Blade Straight features entries by:
Hassan Akram · Anna Behrens · Derrick Belanger ACDS · Paul Chapman ACDS · David
N. Cisler · Carla Coupe BSI, ACDS · Ross E Davies BSI, ACDS · Margie Deck ACDS
· Nicole Eutsler · Kay Hanifen · Dr. Martin Hill Ortiz · Thomas Hébert ·
Stephen Herczeg · Mark Jones · Ngo Binh Anh Khoa · Naching T. Kassa · Sabrina
Kim · David Marcum ACDS · Will Murray · Louis Nagot · Lorraine Sharma Nelson ·
DJ Tyrer · William Allen Veselik · Jeffrey N. Weiss, M. D.
The
journal is edited by Derrick Belanger, ACDS
